Not sure how popular of an opinion this is these days, but unraid is dead simple to use. It's not free, and I think they changed their licensing since I got it, but damn is it nice. Just go to the app store, pick out what you want, fill out a form for ports and such and ban, docker containers spin up with everything you need.
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A few years ago I'd say hell no but windows 10/11 has become a nightmare to use. Shady telemetry collection aside it runs hot as all fuck and drains my laptops battery too fast.
I never thought id say this but between the two I'd just get an m2 or newer Mac.
Honestly, if you block this one user you get rid of most of it 😂. Guy's on their payroll for sure.
If you're hosting plex or jellyfin I'd recommend an old Intel processor with quicksync. I paid like 200 for my pc on ebay gutted it and put it in a bigger case for more hard drives. Runs 4k videos like a champ with no GPU installed.
I hesitantly switched a while ago, have had 0 ragrets except that there are some games I can't play like EA games. But is that really a bad thing though?
Agreed, it's just hard to find a suitable replacement for many things like tvs, since there's a lack of alternative apps for other platforms on things like roku or LG tvs
Pihole doesn't block YouTube ads as it's only a dns blocker, Google serves the ads from the same servers as the videos from what I understand. Adguard home works the same.
Invidious used to work, it's a self hosted YouTube instance that blockw out ads and has things like sponsorblock. I have Playlet installed on my roku pointing at my instance but about a week or so ago it's been giving only errors 😔.
Good news is that it's slated to go stable some time this year iirc.
If I were to bet, I'd say the campaign is ran by a company that rhymes with Smoogle
Pcs are clearly inferior, that's like 32gb on a Mac. /s
People who stream themselves yelling lowdly at the most common/mundane shit that happens in video games.